If you were terminally ill and suffering from excruciating pain, would you even consider euthanasia to be an option? Euthanasia has been such a controversial issue that the government does not allow terminally ill patients to perform euthanasia on themselves and it is frowned upon by healthcare professionals because of work ethics. ... To me, forcing a terminally ill patient to continue living is inhumane. ... I believe that euthanasia should be legalized because it does give the patients that are going through a terminal illness an option to end their pain and suffering. ... Imagine if you ha...

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Suppose I am terminally ill. ... The most accurate characterization of the survey data is that a significant majority of Americans oppose physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia EXCEPT in the limited case of a terminally ill patient with uncontrollable pain. ... Numerous sources and research studies have come up with the conclusion that the main reason for terminally ill patients choosing to undergo euthanasia is depression, a symptom which is hardly life-threatening. ... Take into account these are actual terminally ill patients who must seriously consider this option for their own we...

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However, for some terminally ill patients the pain is unbearable often-lasting weeks even months. ... In the Netherlands euthanasia is an option for the terminally ill, in severe and uncontrollable pain, and for family members. ... To prevent Oregon from being transformed into a Mecca for the terminally ill, the patient must be a resident of Oregon for the Death with Dignity Act to apply. ... This brings the total number of terminally ill Oregonians who chose to take advantage of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act to 91, as of December 31st 2001 (http://www.deathwithdignity.org/resources/or...

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In the United States one's choice to live according to their beliefs and choices are duly recognized and embraced, but terminally ill patients who wish to choose to die with dignity instead of a painful and prolonged death, oftentimes face enormous challenges to obtain life ending drugs. ... Some patients enduring intolerable, unrelievable suffering as well as some terminally ill patients who are enduring lesser but still severe suffering need this legal right, for they cannot escape from their suffering without it. ... Failed attempts may cause the further development of devastating emo...

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When the person was ill with any type of disease that could not be treated, or what is called a terminal illness, a poison was put in the cup of the victim. ... When a person is terminally ill, his family might suggest the possibility of euthanasia, when in fact, the person that is ill can only request it. ... The family may offer spiritual input, but is not involved in the final decision, nor can a family member request euthanasia for an ill family member. ... Some doctors are helping terminally ill patients commit suicide-a so-called physician-assisted suicide-without being punished. ......

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A terminally ill patient is lying on her deathbed waiting for the cancer to take her. ... In the past couple of years, some individuals that have been diagnosed terminally ill have chosen to die with dignity. ... Although some critics may argue that the Dying with Dignity Act or the Right-to-die debate goes against the natural doctor's hippocratic oath, terminally ill patients have a right to choose when they die. ... Brittany makes it clear how important she finds it that individuals should be able to decide their own fate while being terminally ill. ... Although this law would go agains...

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When a patient has a terminal illness, they are suffering greatly. ... Forcing a person to suffer the pain that comes with a terminal illness is uncompassionate. ... Strohm also suggests that a patient who is terminally ill may not want to prolong the inevitable. ... One might observe that terminally ill patients should be allowed the right to doctor assisted suicide. ... One might conclude that doctor assisted suicide for terminally ill patients should be legalized....

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With bills filed in twenty states plus the District of Columbia, the fight to legalize physician-assisted suicide for individuals who are terminally ill will be a prominent subject in the US this year. ... All three of these states have strict guidelines and requirements to ensure that there is no misuse of assisted suicide; key restriction that these states have and common--and would have in common with the California's ELOA--is that, in order to receive assisted suicide in their state, you must be a terminally ill, and you must be a resident of the state in which you are requesting assi...

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With all the progress that the medical profession has gained, people who are terminally ill have more options (such as advanced pain control, more access to proper health care, hospice facilities, etc.). ... Through the continued efforts of many, the terminally ill in some places have already been granted the right to choose when it is time to die. ... Even though many physicians would gain the expertise in understanding a patient's motivations for wanting to die, assessing their mental status, and diagnosing their level of depression, society runs the risk of having "the care we provid...

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But how can someone assist a terminally ill person in taking their life and not risk going to jail for it? ... Should people who are terminally ill, go through pain and suffering, or should they have a choice? ... Doctors have been trying to help terminally ill patients who no longer wish to live (Emanuel 2). ... In the medical aspect, there have been many reports by terminally ill people complaining of severe pain. ... People must put themselves in the place of a terminally ill person. ...

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Terminal diseases have been the leading causes of people to wish to die. ... The cost may be much beyond what the terminally ill individuals' family can afford. ... Assisted suicide enthusiastic people believe this is a liberty that the terminally ill individual or any other person wishing to die cannot be denied, as this might be the sick individuals may with as a way of pursuing happiness in their last breath (Biggs). ... People widely believe that the terminally ill patients have only two option. ... In palliative medicine, a meticulous research indicates that unpleasant symptoms that ...

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Terminal, with a few months left. ... These are just a few of several terminally ill diseases where someone who has been diagnosed might seek out "Physician Assisted Suicide". ... The law, approved by voters in 1994 and 1997, allows the terminally ill to request a lethal dose of drugs if two doctors confirm they have less than six months to live, and the patients are mentally competent to make the request. ... In the first year under the nation's only assisted-suicide law, 15 terminally ill people in Oregon used it to end their lives, and there was no evidence they suffered painful, lin...

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Terminally ill people try to practice this right with medically assisted suicide but are unable to due to where they live. Although it may go against some moral codes, terminally ill citizens are still people of the government. ... Whether a person is terminally ill or not they still have their freedom of choice which is why I think giving the option of medically assisted death is only fair. ... It is more properly described as the right of mentally competent, terminally ill individuals to choose a death with dignity and without needless suffering. ... While Pennsylvania is passing laws that...

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With all of these "giant" steps that mankind has achieved, why is allowing a terminally ill individual freedom to choose termination of his or her life still in the dark ages? A terminally ill individual should be permitted to make a sound, rational, logical and personal decision to end their suffering and pain by choosing physician assisted suicide or self-intervention to die. ... The Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order on a terminally ill patient's chart is a form of passive euthanasia. ... Passive euthanasia takes place in the final sages of a terminally ill patient's life. ... A...

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For instance, someone who is terminally ill and is suffering everyday is going to die eventually. ... A person should absolutely be able to decide to end their life if they are suffering or terminally ill. ... The last attempt to do so was the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, which was passed by the Northern Territory in 1995, but was then overridden by the Commonwealth in 1997" (Williams, 2013). ... Those with terminal illnesses have even more expensive health care needs. ... A person who is terminally ill may choose voluntary euthanasia because they have a poor quality of life. ...

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According to their law, a patient must be seriously ill, if not terminal, to ask for help with death. ... Also, the law applies to terminally ill children. ... It is widely believed that there are only two options facing the terminally ill; they either die slowly and painfully or they receive euthanasia. ... This is mainly because seriously ill patients are vulnerable. ... Kevorkian has treated and assisted in their death, for the most part, were not terminally ill. ...

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A person would have to be diagnosed as terminally ill. ... Many terminally ill people are living in excessive pain for long periods of time. ... Although many physicians oppose assisted suicide, arguing that patients should seek proper medical care, most terminally ill people die in excessive pain due to inadequate care. Some terminally ill choose assisted suicide because of large medical bills that begin to add up. ... I don't think euthanasia should be used on elderly people who are not terminally ill as a means to clear space. ...

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Today's Euthanasia generally refers to mercy killing, the voluntary ending of the life of someone who is terminally or hopelessly ill. ... Patients that are terminally and hopelessly ill are not the only ones suffering. ... Family members "may be sensitive to the costs accumulating during terminal care- (Hagen 91) The final element worthy of discussion in legalizing Euthanasia is an individual's frustration in living, in his opinion, a valueless life after becoming critically ill. Terminally ill patients that suffer from illnesses that make them unable to communicate do not want ...

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These groups feel if euthanasia were to become a publicly accepted option to the terminally ill that physicians, family, and even patients may abuse it. ... Would the financial and emotional burden on the family of a terminally ill patient cause them to make an irrational decision to directly affect the life of the patient? ... Aware of Holland's policy allowing doctors to end the lives of the terminally ill by such means, the woman stated, "I am Catholic. ... Undoubtedly, euthanasia can be gruesome and downright immoral if not managed with extreme responsibility, but groups in support of...

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If individuals are allowed to kill themselves with cigarettes that are legal, why can't terminal patients choose to end their lives when they desire to? ... Like Janet but now 24 years later, a woman named Brittany Maynard, 29, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. ... Keeping a terminally ill patient alive is a crime. ... Keeping a terminally ill patient alive brings an outrageous financial burden. ... But, if proper guidelines are in place to determine that the person is terminally ill and have a time period that they go by before going through with assistance there would be nothing...

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For the terminally ill is there such a thing as a positive death? ... Ultimately euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has too high of a risk of abuse to effectively help terminally ill patients. ... Persons with terminal illnesses have horrific futures ahead of them when treatment is not available. ... (Daniel Callahan, PhD) The patients that will be affected by the legalization of euthanasia are those that are diagnosed with "terminal" illnesses. The definition of terminal is "(of a disease) predicted to lead to death, especially slowly; incurable....

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Even some medical professionals think that a terminally ill patient does not in fact have the right to die. ... This is necessary to protect the ill people who may be particularly vulnerable to being mislead or unaware they are agreeing to kill themselves. ... To deny a terminally ill patient the right to death, is to force the individual and their family to endure pain, suffering, and financial strain. One thing many people do not consider with cases of terminally ill patients, is that keeping them alive for what will be an inevitable death often cost thousands of dollars each month. ... This...

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Many believe that the first and foremost question is the age of the terminally ill, a minor is not mature enough to make a decision as significant as this one. ... Another ethical parameter for euthanasia is that it is not carried out after the first knowledge of a terminal illness. ... Police, paramedics, and coroners put a very low priority of investigation of suicide when they discover that the deceased was dying anyway from a terminal illness. ... The United Church of Christ (Congregational), the Unitarian Church, and the Methodist Church on the West Coast of America all officia...

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If living persons become so ill that they cannot tolerate the pain they have a "right to die" to an escape from torment. ... Simmons, 112) There is still a question involved in the contemporary debates about euthanasia which is posed by a case such as the terminally ill who are dying. ... It is strongly believed that physicians can play a positive role in the active euthanasia of mentally competent, terminally ill people who request assistance in ending their own lives. ... The reason: They are suffering 'needlessly'; their lives are 'useless'; they are terminally...

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When suffering from a terminal illness, many patients will lie in a bed and wait to die. ... These options will help patients that are terminally ill be relieved of their pain if this is their wish. ... The Assisted Dying Bill states that for patients to be considered to receive physician-assisted suicide, they must be adults that are terminally ill that can make voluntary and informed decisions. ... Also, "74% of Germans said they thought euthanasia for seriously ill patients should be legalized"6. ...

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